DevOps/Platform Engineer
Intech Process Automation
Total years of experience :2 years, 10 Months
• Part of the Platform /infra/SRE team that maintains core services, deployed on Kubernetes as part of design and development of an in-house Cloud Native Computerized Maintenance Management System - CMMS industrial IOT Solution.
• The tech stack includes microservices running on Kubernetes, Argocd for Cd, Bitbucket pipelines for CI, Prometheus + Grafana + Loki for monitoring, Apache superset.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning via Terraform for setting up Azure infrastructure and deploy Microservices as Argocd apps to the AKS cluster.
• Used azure blob storage to store state file remotely.
• Leveraged Terraform modules to prevent code repetition.
• Updated/Improved existing Helm Charts for deployment to Azure AKS clusters.
• Worked with individual teams to implement monitoring stack utilizing Prometheus, Loki and Grafana to that enable proactive and cost-effective monitoring.
• Collaborated with dev teams to finalize logging formats and enforcing it ensuring centralized and consistent log management for improved troubleshooting and analysis.
• Utilized akv2k8s to securely manage application configuration and secrets within Kubernetes clusters, enhancing the overall security and reliability of cloud infrastructure.
• Being on call as an SRE to help improve the availability of our deployments.
• Cloud Cost optimization using reservations and monthly audits, achieving 40% savings for the cloud bill.
• Setup CI pipelines that run unit/integration tests and release docker images and helm chart after successful merges. Optimized Pipeline speed by tweaking Docker files and leveraging docker buildkit.
• Worked in the competency of Cloud Computing in the Azure Cloud Vertical within a team of 35 Engineers involving Automating, Managing, and optimizing Cloud-Native deployments on Cloud, leveraging, CI/CD, and DevOps processes. Providing on-going support for Azure customers for both Systems Ltd. and Visionet Systems that include IaaS and PaaS services.
• Worked on legacy Application modernization and deploying cloud native solutions in cross-functional team orientation.
• Worked as an offshore Cloud Engineer for Talbots Project in close liaison with the integration team. Core responsibility involved streamlining the company’s Azure footprint by optimizing costs, new resource provisioning, enforcing tagging, managing scheduling and patching release deployment to infrastructure. Designed monitoring solution using Azure Native monitor and insights.
• Provided on-call Cloud Support assistance for Election Day Monitoring for Associated Press (AP-News) USA.
• Worked on ServiceNow to keep a track of all azure tickets and scheduled reporting on Azure resources to enforce compliance of standards.
• Part of a ‘Lift-n-Shift’ effort to move customers tenants from EA to CSP, across subscription and from on-premises to Azure.
• Delivering workshops and training sessions on Azure services.
• Assessment of client’s current Azure implementation for cost optimization.
Activities and societies: President ACM NUST Student Chapter PR and Outreach Lead, GDG Cloud Islamabad Organizer MLH Hackathon 2019